Jamaican monarch
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The Jamaican monarch (Danaus cleophile) is a species of milkweed butterfly in the nymphalid Danainae subfamily. It is found on the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola (in the Dominican Republic and Haiti), and Jamaica.
Taxonomy
There are two subspecies recognized:
- D. c. cleophile (Godart, 1819), from Hispaniola
- D. c. jamaicensis Turner & Turland, 2018, from Jamaica
The latter is smaller and darker in pigmentation.